Cast: Ashish Choudhry, Isha Kopikar and Amrita Arora
Direction: Karan Razdan
| GirlFriend - Isha Koppikar and Amrita Arora Teams Up In Girlfriend |
| [Thursday, May 20, 2004] |
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The director’s penchant for shock treatment takes a new turn with the film as he explores the forbidden territory of same sex attraction.
Tanya(Isha Koppikar) and Sapna (Amrita Arora) are two friends, together since college, living together and enjoying life.
Having had a difficult childhood, Tanya is possessive of her friend. Both are into male bashing. Whatever Tanya does, Sapna follows.
Once when Tanya is out of town on official work, Sapna meets Rahul (Ashish Choudhary). Rahul pursues Sapna. By the time Tanya is back, Sapna is in love. When Tanya learns about this, she reacts strongly.
Her jealousy and possessiveness comes out at meeting Rahul. From Isha’s side, it is obvious that it is more than just a platonic relationship.
She is simply so crazy about Sapna. And that also to the extent that she goes all out to wreck Sapna’s relationship with Rahul. There are hidden desires in Tanya. Wild desires, which lead her to clash with Rahul in a fight to the wild finish. |
Banner: Cinevistaas production
Cast: Salman Khan, Shilpa Shetty, Amrish Puri, Anupam Kher, Govind Namdeo, Akanksha, Farida Jalal, Shivaji Satam, Mukesh Rishi, and Reshma Bombaywala
Direction: Puneet Issar
Music: Sajid-Wajid
| Garv - Pride and Honour |
| [Monday, May 17, 2004] |
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Garv revolves around the life and times of officers in the Mumbai Police Force. Spearheaded by Samar Singh (Amrish Puri), Arjun Ranawat (Salman Khan) and Hyder Ali (Arbaaz Khan), it also involves their ‘Special Task Force Team’.
In a city where corruption has become the order of the day and ethics a thing of the past, Arjun Ranawat and Hyder Ali, under the spirited guidance of Samar Singh, take up cudgels against the underworld and defy the dictates of the prescribed line of law, thus eliminating several of the ‘wanted’, under the line of fire. This result in creating a panic like situation for powerful people connected, not only to the power-center of Mumbai, but even beyond the national boundaries, resulting in a high tension, action packed drama. At the same time, Arjun Ranawat has a family crisis. His mother (Farida Jalal) and innocent sister (Akanksha) are targeted as a measure of revenge by the opposition. This is the last straw for Arjun. He becomes a law unto himself!
Shilpa Shetty, whose character is madly in love with Arjun Ranawat, provides the love element. Anupam Kher, Mukesh Rishi, Govind Namdeo, Anant Jogue, Mohan Joshi, Steven Fernandes and Hemant Birje head the list of the ‘tough ones’ besides several others, who form part of the huge star-cast assembled. |
Cast: Mahima Chaudhry, Priyanshu Chaterjee, Vasundhra Das and Aryan Vaid.
Direction: Tanuja Chandra
Production: Sahara and Mahesh Bhatt
Music: Jatin-Lalit
| Film Star - Film Star preview |
| [Friday, May 14, 2004] |
| Hira Pandit (Mahima Chaudhury) is an actress who is nothing if not full of herself. Arrogant and thriving on only one thing - people adoring her unabashedly, and without stopping, just loving her! So naturally when this adoration stars to wane, she can’t take it. Her vanity can’t bear the fact that her popularity is slipping, that she’s not getting nominated for awards, that her films simply aren’t working like they used to. And at this fragile juncture of her life she runs into Digambar (Priyanshu Chatterjee), an old friend, whom she used to lovingly call Digs.
Somewhere along the way, their lives had traveled down different paths. He’s a drunkard, an ex-lawyer now very much out of work, who makes a living, singing in a cheap bar. He’s counted the days and months and year since they last met but on this night when they accidentally meet he makes the one mistake that he shouldn’t have…he criticizes Hira. He tells her that she needs to reinvent herself, do new work, and be less predictable on screen.This sends her into a tizzy, but it also sends her towards events that change her life forever.
Hira finds herself the bona-fide drama, a real-life one, one that will surely take her back to the top! It’s the story of a loving, traditional wife, the murder of her husband, a father-in-law who heads a non-political but powerful organization and the secrets that lie behind the closed doors of his “bhavan”. A volatile world, which she enters purely to exploit for her own ends - is also the one that soon takes over her whole life. She begins to get attached to the women whose juicy story she had wanted just for film. She begins to see the strength in her lawyer friend whom she had merely considered a failure till now.
As celluloid clashes with reality, it changes her forever. An inmate’s (Vasundhara Das) past with her husband (Aryan Vaid) becomes the present of this actress and threatens to destroy her future. The actress, the drunk, the widow, the violent party-head…these lives get enmeshed with each other as Hira struggles to become successful not just in the movies, but also in life. And this isn’t easy she finds out…as she realizes…that life…is much more than films. |
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Fardeen Khan, Kareena Kapoor,Rati Agnihotri, Om Puri
Direction: Govind Nihalani
Music: Aadesh Shrivastav
| Dev - The original angry young man is back |
| [Thursday, May 13, 2004] |
| In Govind Nihalani’s second attempt at commericial cinema, Dev, Amitabh Bachchan plays Joint Commissioner of Police Dev Pratap Singh. A proud and seasoned Police Officer Dev believes in supremacy of law.
Om Puri is Tejinder Khosla. Special Commissioner and friend of Dev, is the balancing force between the political interests of Chief Minister Bhandarker (Amrish Puri) and Dev’s commitment to the law.
Fardeen Khan is Farhaan, an unemployed law graduate. His father Ali Saheb had bought him up on his ideas of patriotism and non-violence. But his father’s violent death leaves him emotionally orphaned.
Probed by Dev unintentionally, an angry Farhaan chooses the path of violence. He joins forces with the corrupted and ambitious politician, Lati, to spark off a series of terrorist bombs in the city.
As a result thousands of innocent lives are lost and now Dev is confronted with the urgency to stop Farhaan from doing more damage.
Kareena Kapoor plays Aaliya, a full of life and a romantic girl who is the only ray of light and warmth in Farhaan’s life. She gets caught in an extraordinary circumstance that transforms her life.
With Dev, Nihlani brings Amitabh Bachchan and Om Puri together for the first time on the Hindi screen. While Big B conquered the nation with his portrayal of a tough cop in Zanjeer, Puri stole the show with Nihlani’s hard hitting cop saga Ardh Satya. |
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vivek Oberoi, Kareena Kapoor, Esha Deol, Rani Mukherjee
Direction: Mani Ratnam
Music: A.R.Rahaman
Website: www.yuvathefilm.com
| Yuva - Mani Ratnam is back in Bollywood |
| [Thursday, May 06, 2004] |
| Mani Ratnam is back in Bollywood after his self imposed five year long exile. But only to churn out the biggest multistarrer, Yuva, for his production banner Madras Talkies.
As the name suggests Yuva is the story of three young couples and how their lives get entangled after a fateful day.
Ajay Devgan is Michael Mukherjee, a PhD student, who take an active part in society and politics and questions oneself before blaming everything else around them for the degeneration of the socio politic fabric.
Playing his love interest is Esha Deol, Radhika. A French teacher by profession Radhika wants to get married, but Michael doesn’t believes in institution of marriage.
Vivek Oberoi is Arjun Balakrishnan, a typical yuppie and an engineer who plans to shift his base to USA and enjoy life. But his ladylove Mira (Kareena Kapoor) wants to get married and settled down in Kanpur.
Abhishek Bachchan is Lallan and the most unpredictable of them all. He believes that his needs are more important than the right and wrongs of life. He lives for himself and feels that he owes nothing to anybody except himself.
He fears no one and listens to none. He stays in Kolkata with his love Sashi (Rani Mukherjee).
When the three young men are brought together by an accident on the Second Hoogly Bridge in Kolkata, their lives change irreversibly. Their change, their conflict, and their interactions with each other is the crux of the film. The film examines the lives of these three men and their families and the complex relationships between individuals who are very different, yet so similar.
Sonu Sood plays the main negative lead in the film. The music of the film is composed by A.R.Rehman while Mehboob has written the lyrics.
Yuva has also been made in a Tamil version (Ayutha Ezhuthu) simultaneously, which stars Surya, Madhavan, Siddharth, Meera Jasmine, Trisha Krishnan and Esha Deo. |
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